linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19] drivers/media/video/cpia2/cpia2_usb.c: Free previously allocated memory (in array elements) if kmalloc() returns NULL.

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Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:04:25 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...washington.edu>
To:	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
cc:	Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19] drivers/media/video/cpia2/cpia2_usb.c: Free
 previously allocated memory (in array elements) if kmalloc() returns NULL.

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:

> > --- a/drivers/media/video/cpia2/cpia2_usb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/video/cpia2/cpia2_usb.c
> > @@ -640,6 +640,10 @@ static int submit_urbs(struct camera_dat
> >  		cam->sbuf[i].data =
> >  		    kmalloc(FRAMES_PER_DESC * FRAME_SIZE_PER_DESC, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  		if (!cam->sbuf[i].data) {
> > +			for (--i; i >= 0; i--) {
> > +				kfree(cam->sbuf[i].data);
> > +				cam->sbuf[i].data = NULL;
> > +			}
> >  			return -ENOMEM;
> >  		}
> >  	}
> 
> Just for future. Shorter and more readable version of your for(...) thing:
> 
> 	while (i--) {
> 		...
> 	}
> 

No, that is not equivalent.

You want
	while (i-- >= 0) {
		...
	}
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